The laser in my old CD burner wore out so I just bought an LG DVD burner. I took the old CD burner and replaced it with the LG burner. I opened the computer and it recognised the LG drive. I put a few CDs in there and they've all worked well on the LG drive. Here's the problem though, when I open a program like Nero, it won't recognise that the LG burner. In the Nero recorder options, it only shows an image burner as my choice for burning. It won't show the LG burner. I tried with other programs like CloneCD as well and none of them recognize the LG burner. That's why I was wondering what I can do to get the computer to recognize the burner. I know that there's nothing wrong with the burner since when I open up the Nero infoTool, it has a check mark next to the box saying whether or not not the burner can burn CD-R,CD-RWs, DVD-Rs, etc. Before you say it, I've already updated to the newest driver.

Your version of Nero does not have the driver for your drive. You need to go to the Nero site and look for an upgrade that supports that drive. Sorry, I do not check for private messages

There are two drivers for read/write drives. One is the stock read driver that's built into windows. The write driver is built into the burner program (like Nero). They have to add patches for each new drive that comes out. Sorry, I do not check for private messages

Windows sometimes doesn't use the correct mode for a burner, and if it doesn't, some burners are not recognized properly. See this: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx If the burner is in PIO mode, try re-setting it to DMA if possible - it should then go into Ultra DMA mode 2 (or Multiword DMA mode), and all should be well, after a reboot.